Subj : RE: FTN  / Usenet to a new BBS
To   : Joacim Melin
From : Blue White
Date : Fri May 08 2020 15:40:49

 JM> I'm in the process of moving all my FTN based stuff (including my
 JM> Usenet feed from Avon et. al) to a FreeBSD based BBS system called
 JM> Sklaffkom (it's Swedish). It can handle Usenet feeds but not any
 JM> FTN stuff since it was never written for it. I can get Binkd
 JM> running in FreeBSD without any problems but I'm dumbfounded on how
 JM> to get the .MSG files into a "Usenet" format that the import/export
 JM> utility in Sklaffkom can handle.

 JM> Anyone got any ideas?

If it was never written to handle FTN there is probably not an easy way
to force it to do so.  Easiest way might be to set up a BBS program like
syncronet to handle importing/exporting to/from ftn, and then set up
this bbs as your public facing bbs with syncronet in the background
serving as your NNTP server for the new system.

Sorry that does not sound easy to maintain 2 BBSes but, aside from
joining FTN networks that offer and allow NNTP feeds directly (I only
know of one), I cannot think of an easy way to do that.

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